Penmaen Pool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC ECEC FCFC GHGC IHIC BCBC BCBC JCJC BCBCFor the Visitors' Book at the Inn | A |
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Who long for rest who look for pleasure | B |
Away from counter court or school | C |
O where live well your lease of leisure | B |
But here at here at Penmaen Pool | C |
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You'll dare the Alp you'll dart the skiff | D |
Each sport has here its tackle and tool | C |
Come plant the staff by Cadair cliff | D |
Come swing the sculls on Penmaen Pool | C |
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What's yonder Grizzled Dyphwys dim | E |
The triple hummocked Giant's stool | C |
Hoar messmate hobs and nobs with him | E |
To halve the bowl of Penmaen Pool | C |
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And all the landscape under survey | F |
At tranquil turns by nature's rule | C |
Rides repeated topsyturvy | F |
In frank in fairy Penmaen Pool | C |
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And Charles's Wain the wondrous seven | G |
And sheep flock clouds like worlds of wool | H |
For all they shine so high in heaven | G |
Shew brighter shaken in Penmaen Pool | C |
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The Mawddach how she trips though throttled | I |
If floodtide teeming thrills her full | H |
And mazy sands all water wattled | I |
Waylay her at ebb past Penmaen Pool | C |
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But what's to see in stormy weather | B |
When grey showers gather and gusts are cool | C |
Why raindrop roundels looped together | B |
That lace the face of Penmaen Pool | C |
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Then even in weariest wintry hour | B |
Of New Year's month or surly Yule | C |
Furred snows charged tuft above tuft tower | B |
From darksome darksome Penmaen Pool | C |
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And ever if bound here hardest home | J |
You've parlour pastime left and who'll | C |
Not honour it ale like goldy foam | J |
That frocks an oar in Penmaen Pool | C |
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Then come who pine for peace or pleasure | B |
Away from counter court or school | C |
Spend here your measure of time and treasure | B |
And taste the treats of Penmaen Pool | C |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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